It's estimated that anywhere from three to seven percent of school-age children may have dyslexia, a neurodevelopmental issue that affects reading, spelling, and writing. There are different ideas ...

New research published in Neuropsychologia provides evidence that adults with dyslexia process visual information differently ...

Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty in which genes often play a role. How do genes associated with dyslexia relate to brain structure in the general population? In a large-scale study published ...

WASHINGTON -- When dyslexic children took part in a program to teach them better reading skills their brains began functioning more like the brains of normal children, a new study reports. Dyslexia, a ...

For decades, dyslexia has been framed primarily as a deficit—a condition characterized by reading difficulties, spelling challenges, and processing issues that create educational hurdles. This ...

Do you have special mental capacities that likely are not enjoyed by 80% of the people around you? Are you among the one in five who, according to cognitive neuroscience, are neurobiologically wired ...

November marks National Family Literacy Month, a fitting occasion as concern about reading instruction in U.S. schools goes from a simmer to a boil. For years, parents and educators around the country ...

A consortium of researchers has produced the largest and most advanced multidimensional maps of gene regulation networks in the brains of people with and without mental disorders. These maps detail ...